Art in the age of technoscience : genetic engineering, robotics, and artificial life in contemporary art / Ingeborg Reichle ; with a preface by Robert Zwijnenberg ; translated by Gloria Custance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reichle, Ingeborg, 1970-

Standardized Title:

Kunst aus dem Labor. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Science and the arts--21st century.

Science and the arts.

Art and science.

Artificial life in art.

Physical Description:

xxix, 422 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

[Revised and expanded English edition].

Place of Publication:

Wien ; New York : Springer, [2009]

Summary:

Is science the new art? Starting from this provocative question, art historian Ingeborg Reichle examines in her book fascinating responses of contemporary artists when faced with recent scientific and technological advances. In the last two decades a growing number of artists has left the traditional artistic playground to work instead in scientific contexts such as the laboratories of molecular biology robotics, and artificial life. New art froms like "Transgenic Art" and "Bio-Art" have emerged from the laboratory. These art forms differ dramatically from traditional artistic approaches that explore the natural: they have crossed the boundaries between the artifical and the natural, and thus provoke passionate debetes about the growing influence of science and technology. This first comprehensive survey presents a well-selected number of significant artworks and with over 290 color illustrations provides a broad overview of this new and relevant development in art.

Contents:

1 Art in the Age of Technoscience: Transgressing the Boundaries 1

2 The Dawning of the Biotech Century 15

3 Art in the Genetic Age 33

4 When Life Becomes Art 63

5 Genesthetics: Molecular Biology and the Arts 97

6 Art in the Age of Genetic Engineering 121

7 From Life-like Machines to a Silicon Second Nature 145

8 The Living and the Life-like: Art and Artificial Life 167

9 Art and Digital Evolution 193

10 Epilog 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783211781609

3211781609

OCLC:

233550129